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Bronze Age Lumbago. A resort town ever since Bronze Age lumbago sufferers took its waters 3,000 years ago, St. Moritz' modern beginnings date back just a century ago to the day in 1856 when Innkeeper Johannes Badrutt bought the little Kulm Hotel. Johannes was modestly prospering on summer trade when one autumn he wagered four departing British guests that they could stroll around St. Moritz in midwinter without overcoats. That winter the four struggled upland through the snow, arrived in St. Moritz to find the sun so warm that Johannes was waiting in his shirtsleeves...